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The Potential Of Cadaver Transplantation Programme In India

...ne that it is possible to do organise the chain of events that lead to cadaver transplants and second that it is not only kidneys but our hospitals and doctors can do other organ transplants successfully too. We in India may not be able to compare our economical progress with some of the western countries...

An Exploration into Erectile Dysfunction in Diabetics

...n diabetics O-GlcNAc, interferes with the chain of events needed to achieve and maintain erection and can le... erection. O-GlcNAc hinders this normal chain of events by inhibiting the activation of eNOS, and consequently reducing the release of NO and preventing the...

Influence of Celebrities on Breast Cancer Awareness

...such as runs, hikes, walks, and other fund raising events raise hundred of millions of dollars to conquer that dreaded scourge of the modern woman, breast cancer. A breast cancer campaign would give more women the cure that can come from early detection; 80,000 new cases are diagnosed annually in India. T...

Patients In Hospital ICUs At Risk From Medical Errors

...erefore more susceptible to injury. Of the adverse events in the sample, almost half (45 percent) of them we...e preventable. A significant number of the adverse events involved medications—most commonly, giving patients the wrong dose. Over 90 percent of all incidents...

Artery Stiffness Linked To Increasing Levels Of C-reactive protein

...ent inability to accurately predict cardiovascular events such as heart attack is a problem. The researchers said that their study provides a new insight into how low grade inflammation could be related to heart and stroke by its association with arterial stiffness. Thus suppression of inflammation may be a...

Asthma aggravated by thought processes

...n these seemingly intertwined emotional and immune events or how the circuits might influence the severity of an acute asthma response. Researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of six mildly asthmatic people who were asked to inhale ragweed or dust-mite extracts. Su...

Features Of The Brain Affect Asthma And Other Stress Related Disorders

...n these seemingly intertwined emotional and immune events or how the circuits might influence the severity of an acute asthma response. Researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of six mildly asthmatic people who were asked to inhale ragweed or dust-mite extracts. Su...

Stem Cells, Tumor Cells Share Similar Properties: Scope For Treatment and Prevention?

...ferentiates. This process is controlled by genetic events that happen before the cell division. For example, when primary nerve cell called the neuroblast was genetically disturbed, tumor cells rather than normal nerve cells were subsequently produced. When these altered cells were transplanted into flies...

Cholesterol Can Cause Burst Arteries

...material into the bloodstream. It is this chain of events – the expansion of the liquid cholesterol as it crystallizes into a solid – that kick-start the body’s natural clotting process that, unfortunately in this case, works against the body, essentially shutting down the artery. It is the presence of the...

Medicines Used In Antiplatelet Therapy Can Reduce Heart Attacks And Strokes

... of PCI in preventing major adverse cardiovascular events in patients undergoing PCI after initial pharmacol...r death, heart attack, or stroke following PCI (34 events [3.6 percent] vs. 58 events [6.2 percent]. Pretreatment with clopidogrel also reduced the odds by ...

MS Patients Improve With Telephone Therapy

...sion and improve skills in managing stressful life events and interpersonal difficulties,” while T-SEFT has the goal of “increasing participants’ level of experience of their internal world.” All patients spoke with a psychologist on the phone for 50 minutes each week and were followed-up for 12 months. Th...

Parental Behavior And Movies Can Alter Perceptions About Smoking

...viors through family members, community and social events and media may influence attitudes and expectations about alcohol and tobacco use long before children ever consider using these products themselves, according to background information in the article. Young children’s attitudes have been difficult to...

Pharma Companies May Influence The Decisions Of Medical Students

...per week and often feel that sponsored educational events are biased. Medical students are entering an environment with progressively fewer boundaries between medicine and the pharmaceutical industry, which spends $12 billion to $18 billion annually marketing to physicians (including residents), according ...

New Drugs For High Blood Pressure Better Than Old Ones

...he newer drugs prevented more major cardiovascular events and caused fewer cases of diabetes than the older drugs. In a second study researchers from Imperial College London, UK had looked at differences in blood pressure and other variables in patients assigned the newer drugs versus those allocated the s...

Wrinkle reduction cream has offered insights into working of nervous system

...n of the nerve cell. An in-depth analysis of such events will pave way for an improved understanding regarding neurological disorders and pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the same. There is no doubt that understanding this process will lead to novel research to tackle neuronal diseases such as Pa...

An answer to obesity: weight control protein

...sitivity, Rui said. Therefore, SH2-B and signaling events regulated by SH2-B may serve as potential therapeutic targets for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. "Because SH2-B sensitizes both leptin and insulin, action drugs that mimic or enhance SH2-B action may improve insulin and leptin sensiti...

An Answer To Obesity: Weight Control Protein

...sitivity, Rui said. Therefore, SH2-B and signaling events regulated by SH2-B may serve as potential therapeutic targets for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. "Because SH2-B sensitizes both leptin and insulin, action drugs that mimic or enhance SH2-B action may improve insulin and leptin sensiti...

Novartis MS Drug Shows Promising Results

...rolled phase. The most frequently reported adverse events in patients treated up to twelve months were non-serious infections (colds, influenza), headache, diarrhoea and nausea. About FTY720 Oral FTY720 has a novel mode of action different from all available therapies. It reversibly sequesters lymphocy...

PET Scanning can help in early detection of Alzheimer’s diseas

...e difficulty remembering details of conversations, events and upcoming appointments. Patients with MCI cannot be diagnosed as being afflicted with Alzheimer’s. However, the disorder is seen as a precursor to Alzheimer's disease. Many patients with MCI develop a progressive decline in their thinking abilit...

Terminally Ill deserves a better quality of Life

...tions from New Zealand to Hawaii will hold special events to raise a "voice for hospices". In a span of 24 hours, around 350 such events, including in Delhi, will be held to raise funds and awareness about how palliative care can transform lives. Source:IANS...

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